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Inside Out is such a brilliant
movie. Its premise is so simple but the approach is heart-rending. Family is everything that's what
everyone says. And that is the realest deal! Everyone wants to be happy.
Everyone wants to experience joy not sadness. We don't want anything to do with
Sadness. We don't want her to permeate into our consciousness. But the truth is
we need Sadness in our lives. Watching the movie, I kind of
wanted to shut Sadness off. She was so annoying. She does things she does not
even mean. How’s that? But then, when I realized the
emotions were personified and that everything happening with Riley has more
to do with her and not with the emotions itself, it hit me. Sadness was never annoying.
Sadness really didn’t mean any of her actions. She did not want to take over Joy's
leadership. It was just that Riley was beginning to feel more sadness. She was
already being exposed to life experiences that were all saddening: her family
having to move to San Fran…